STILL ROOFING

Apparently roofing takes forever, as evidenced by the amount of time we've spent doing it. It doesn't help that we've not worked two full days in the past couple of weeks ... but still, you'd think this roof business would be done by now.

Yesterday evening we got the steps put in. You have no idea how great steps are! Big John and I are both too old to go up and down the two foot elevation. Old people need steps!

This morning, we were hard at it by daybreak. We started laying the cross pieces to which we'll attach the tin. This is the next to last step on the roof, I think. I hope!

Big John and I spent the whole day walking the rafters. It was hard on our feet and a little scary at times, but we worked well together and got the whole thing done! Thank goodness - this was a tough and time-consuming step in the process. Big John even laid a couple of pieces of  tin just to see how it will look. It was too late and too windy to do much more. Here's how it looks now:

We also put up the back wall of Big John's workshop. We had the sheets of OSB and needed to get them out of the way. Plus it looks cool to see it all coming together!

We're keeping our fingers crossed for light (or no) winds next weekend so we can put the tin down. If all goes well, we hope to get the house wrap up as well. I just hope we're done with roofing!

Oh, and we got the onions planted too! Not too bad for a day's work!